- Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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- The leading cause of poisoning for children under the age of six in the home is liquid dish soap.
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- Huge Moore, the inventor of Dixie cups got the idea for the name from a neighboring factory, the Dixie Doll Company.
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- The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
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- Approximately 10.5 gallons of water is used in a dishwasher. Washing the dishes by hand can use up to 20 gallons of water.
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- An average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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- Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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- Avery Laser Labels are named after company founder R. Stanton Avery.
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- Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been mixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
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- Arthur Giblin was the inventor of the first "flushable" toilet.
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- Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
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- Common pesticides such as roach, termite and flea insecticide can be found in the bodies of majority of Americans.
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- Due to the shortages of lead and metals during World War II, toothpaste was packaged in plastic tubes and have been ever since.
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- 98% of houses in the United States have at least one television set.
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- The first pair of sunglasses was invented by designer James Ayscough, but they did not become popular until the 1930's.
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- A common name for pincurls is also spitcurls because woman sometimes wet their hair with their saliva before curling it.
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- 2×4 (4×2 to the British) is not. 2×4 is the name used to refer to a common size of timber, but what most people don’t realize is that it is actually 1.5×3.5
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- Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
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- The water displacement product, WD-40, can be found in 80% of American homes.
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- Johnson & Johnson's BAND-AID brand adhesive bandages have been around over 80 years.
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- Over one billion Valentine's Day cards are sent each year in North America.
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- Austria was the very first country to use postcards starting in 1869.
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- Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
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